Exhibitions

Lismore Castle’s art gallery celebrates 20th anniversary with an exhibition dedicated to the kunstkammer

Artists draw inspiration from elements of the castle including its cultivated gardens, among the oldest in Ireland

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

The future is sexy—at least in Syd Mead’s visionary science-fiction art

The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century

Was Van Gogh’s mutilation of his ear connected to his brother’s engagement?

The impending marriage was not the fundamental cause of Vincent’s mental health crisis, but he was very close to his brother and had ambivalent feelings about the arrival of a spouse

Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo show in Africa opens in Madagascar

The exhibition at the Fondation H in Antananarivo includes the British Nigerian artist’s 6,000-book installation The African Library

‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’: artist David Salle on using an AI model to enhance his painting practice

The New York-based painter’s work with machine learning generates backgrounds based on his previous work, which he then transforms into new paintings—with some of the results now on show in London

David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash ★★★★

The artist’s largest ever show—at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris—requires patience at times, but is overall a triumphant celebration of his inexhaustible eye

Patients can be prescribed visits to Emily Carr exhibition under new Vancouver Art Gallery mental health initiative

As part of Canada’s national nature prescription programme, healthcare professionals can send visitors to the gallery in support of their psychological wellbeing

Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte have taken over Pinault’s Venetian galleries: here are the works not to miss

From subversions of the “reclining woman“ motif to an urban cosmos, the works in these sprawling shows offer an insight into the diversity of the two artists’ practices

National Gallery of Art marking 250th anniversary of US with loans to ten museums across the country

The initiative, already underway and continuing through May 2026, comes as the Trump administration has pressured arts funders and institutions to prioritise semiquincentennial projects

‘I am glad you are recording what they have done to me’: portraits from Belsen concentration camp among exhibits in London anniversary show

An exhibition marking 80 years since the camp was liberated “takes a fresh look at a subject that many of us think we are familiar with”, says the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library

King’s Gallery exhibition on Edwardian Age reveals literary, musical and artistic tastes of royal family

On show are personal items, as well as art and jewellery, belonging to King Edward and Queen Alexandra, many on view for the first time

Nine astonishing places to see Van Gogh's paintings

Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome

Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working-class life

The show, held at the grand Two Temple Place, challenges inequities and misrepresentation

Newly conserved portrait of an Italian beauty who bewitched King Edward VII to go on show

The royal acquired the painting, now in an exhibition at The King’s Gallery, when he was a young prince

Museu de Arte de São Paulo traces its own history and evolution across exhibitions in its new tower

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy

Where to see Van Gogh's work in 2025: Boston, London and beyond

Japan wins out, with three separate shows that, together, will probably attract over a million visitors this year

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Let them eat cake—and custard: Food Museum launches school dinners exhibition

The show promises free tasters that may “provoke delight or disgust, depending on your memories of school food”

Giuseppe Penone on his plans to take over London's Serpentine South—and the park beyond

Ahead of the opening of his largest UK exhibition to date, the Italian artist discusses what will make this show unique

Rhode Island School of Design shuts down students’ pro-Palestine exhibition

The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public

Yoko Ono’s acclaimed Tate Modern retrospective will travel to MCA Chicago

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation

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Avast me hearty: much loved National Maritime Museum curator gets touching send off

Visitors to the museum's pirates exhibition may spot ongoing tributes from staffers

April's must-see exhibitions: Matisse, Morris and the design of the 1940s

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

Guggenheim shows to champion Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, who still ‘needs to be rediscovered by many audiences’

The career survey of the Portuguese abstract painter starts in Venice before moving to Bilbao

Robert Rauschenberg's centenary celebrations are starting with old friends

Rarely seen works and other treats will go on show in worldwide exhibitions, starting in Milan and Munich this April

With ‘Art and Design in the 1940s’, Philadelphia Museum of Art is exploring a decade of two halves

Using the museum's vast archive, this exhibition highlights the impact of war followed by optimism

Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career

From artisans to AI: London exhibition explores the legacy of William Morris

A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

Must-see shows during Art Basel Hong Kong

Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai inspires an outdoor installation, Louise Bourgeois brings rarely-seen sculptures and eight artists from across the region are spotlit